"Seaman Class 1, Nesbitt was a Medical Assistant attached to 3 Commando Brigade, working in close support of C Company, 1st Battalion The Rifles (1 RIFLES). (The Royal Navy provides the medical support to 3 Commando Brigade, who are normally based in Plymouth.) On her return from Afghanistan, Nesbitt worked in the Surgical Assessment Unit at the Military Hospital Unit in Derriford Hospital, Plymouth. (MDHU Derriford) Nesbitt qualified as a Naval pharmacy technician in January 2015 and transferred to the Medical Technician branch in April 2017. The Military Cross is awarded to any rank of the Army, Navy, Marines and"
"armed forces. She is tall. Nesbitt joined the Royal Navy in 2005. She passed a Military Prehospital Emergency Care course run by the charity British Association for Immediate Care (BASICS) at the Royal Marines base in Arbroath in Scotland. After medical training, she served at the Commando Training Centre in Lympstone, followed by a posting aboard the Type 42 destroyer HMS ""Nottingham"". Nesbitt was deployed to Afghanistan for six months between October 2008 and March 2009 as part of the ongoing Operation Herrick, the British contribution to the War in Afghanistan which began in 2001. With the rank of Able"
"including the Meritorious Service Medal, the Outstanding Service Medal, the Surgeon General's Exemplary Service Medal, and the Commendation Medal. In 2009, she received the Health Leader of the Year Award from the Commissioned Officers Association, its highest honor. Additionally, Admiral Blumenthal was the recipient of the Abram Sachar Silver Medallion from Brandeis University, in recognition of her pioneering leadership in women's health. She is the recipient of the Dr. Rosalind Franklin Centennial Life in Discovery Award and the Women's Leadership Award from Save the Children. She was honored as a Woman of Distinction by the Association of American University Women,"
"weeks after the ambush, at the end of her tour. Nesbitt next met List back in England in May 2009, at a medals parade for 1 RIFLES at their Chepstow barracks, the first time he was able to speak, and thank Nesbitt. Nesbitt's award was first announced on 11 September 2009. Both List and Nesbitt attended the Devon Festival of Remembrance at the University of Exeter on 5 November 2009. Nesbitt also read the citation during the Royal British Legion's Festival of Remembrance in the Royal Albert Hall in London on Saturday 7 November 2009. Nesbitt was presented with her"
"Presenter. At the 2010 Hospital Broadcasting Association awards, the station won the Silver Award in the Station of the Year category; the Bronze Award for Best Station Promotion and was commended for Best Speech Package. At the 2009 Inspiring Volunteering Awards held in Plymouth, the station was named as Volunteer Team of The Year. At the 2009 Hospital Broadcasting Association awards, several Hospital Radio Plymouth volunteers were honoured. Josh Andrews was named HBA Volunteer of the Year, Josie Scobling received the silver award for Best Speech Package, Isobel King received a Highly Commended Award for Best Female Presenter and Josh"
"this role. Richard Carmona, who served in the role under George W. Bush, was both a nurse and a physician. She was succeeded by Vice Admiral Jerome Adams on September 5, 2017. In 2017, she was awarded the Red Cross' Florence Nightingale Medal, the highest international distinction in the nursing profession. Trent-Adams grew up on a farm in Concord, Virginia and graduated from Appomattox County High School in 1983. She is married to Dennis Adams and has two daughters. Sylvia Trent-Adams Sylvia Trent-Adams (born circa 1965) is a rear admiral in the U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps and the"
"She received the American Nurses Association (ANA) Honorary Recognition Award the next year. She retired from PHS in 1979 as a rear admiral. Scott had extensive involvement in international nursing. She worked as a consultant to international organizations in India and Israel. She was named among the first group of Living Legends of the American Academy of Nursing in 1994. Scott died on October 20, 2009 in hospice care at The Washington Home in Washington, D.C. She had been suffering from congestive heart failure. She was posthumously inducted into the ANA Hall of Fame in 2014. The ANA awards the"
"She was the first woman to serve as President of the American Society of Nephrology in its 43-year history. Her term started in 2009 and she played an activist role in the position. She has worked to strategically improve the diversity of leadership at the ASN, to better reflect social demographics. In her work with the American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM), she served as Chair of the Nephrology Board. For the NIH, she chaired the General Medicine ""B"" Study Section. For her work as an educator at OHSU, she was awarded Faculty Teaching Awards 2001, 2002, and 2003. She"
"of the Association of American Medical Colleges as part of the Research on Care Community (ROCC) and has been designated a ROCC Star. She is also ranked among the Fifty Most Innovative People in Healthcare by Healthcare Administration Degree Programs. In 2008, she received the Kopolow Award for Excellence in Geriatrics, Neurology or Psychiatry and the Distinguished Community Service Award from Washington University. In 2013, she was named a Norman R. Seay Lecturer for the Knight’s Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center, and she received the Association of American Medical Colleges Learning Health System Challenge Award. She is also a graduate of"
"Incurables at Putney) and throughout Britain (Royal Victoria Hospital, Netley; Edinburgh Royal Infirmary; Cumberland Infirmary and Liverpool Royal Infirmary), as well as at Sydney Hospital in New South Wales, Australia. In 1883, Nightingale became the first recipient of the Royal Red Cross. In 1904, she was appointed a Lady of Grace of the Order of St John (LGStJ). In 1907, she became the first woman to be awarded the Order of Merit. In the following year she was given the Honorary Freedom of the City of London. Her birthday is now celebrated as International CFS Awareness Day. From 1857 onwards,"
"Penny Melville-Brown Penny Melville-Brown is a British Royal Navy veteran, blind baker and winner of the Holman Prize. She served for 22 years in the Women’s Royal Naval Service (WRNS) and Royal Navy, reaching the rank of commander. She was the first woman to hold the position of naval barrister. She was medically discharged from the Royal Navy in 1999 after her eyesight deteriorated and she created Disability Dynamics to help other people with disabilities to start a business. In 2009, she won an OBE for her service to the disabled. In 2017, she was one of the three winners"
"helped raise over £5 million to set up a cancer wing at the North Middlesex Hospital, where she received most of her treatment. The inaugural recipient of the award was horse trainer Jenny Pitman, in 1999. Other winners include South African Paralympic sprinter Oscar Pistorius, who won the award in 2007. Several recipients have not played a sport professionally, including: Jane Tomlinson, who won in 2002, Kirsty Howard (2004), Phil Packer (2009), Anne Williams, who received the award posthumously in 2013, and eight-year-old Bailey Matthews (2015). Michael Watson, who won the award in 2003, had a career in boxing but"
"coast. Josephine Nesbit Josephine May Nesbit (also known as Josie Nesbit; December 23, 1894 – August 16, 1993) was an American nurse who served in the Army Nurse Corps. She was second-in-command of the Angels of Bataan, Army nurses stationed in the Philippine Islands during World War II who were the largest group of American women taken as prisoners of war. Nesbit was noted for her ""humane, dynamic leadership style."" She was credited with the survival of the nurses during the years they were held in captivity at Santo Tomas Internment Camp. Nesbit was born on her family's farm near"
"Excellence award in 2012 for Volunteerism and Service, and was nominated for Nurse of the Year 2010 by the March of Dimes. 2010 - 2012 ONAAT added Nancy Leigh Harless, BSN, WCHNP, as Communications Director to increase public awareness of ONAAT through the media. The unpaid Board of Directors are members in and outside the medical community, and guide the organization in activities and future programs. 9. One Nurse At A Time: Beyond Borders edited by Sue Averill. Humanitarian Nursing at the Edge of the World www.OneNurseAtATime.org Facebook: One Nurse At A Time One Nurse at a Time One Nurse"
"Aquarium granted its inaugural Lifetime Achievement Award to Dr. Earle, and renamed the Seattle Aquarium Medal in her honor. The Aquarium’s first Lifetime Achievement Award was awarded to Dr. Earle. In 2009, Earle won a TED Prize. With TED's support, she launched Mission Blue, which aims to establish marine protected areas (dubbed ""Hope Spots"") around the globe. With Mission Blue and its partners, Earle leads expeditions to Hope Spots around the globe. Past expeditions include Cuba in 2009, Belize in January 2010, the Galápagos Islands in April 2010, Costa Rica and the Central American Dome in early 2014 and the"
"Courage Award. She is married to J(ohn) Henry Bostwick, who from 1992 to 2002 served as President of the Senate. Janet Bostwick Janet G. Bostwick (born 30 October 1939) is a Bahamian lawyer and politician. She entered politics in 1977 with an appointment to the Senate. She was the first woman to serve as acting Prime Minister, first female Attorney General and the first female Member of Parliament in the Bahamas. Janet Gwennett Musgrove was born in Nassau to Nick and Lois Musgrove. In 1957, she began working as a stenographer in the Legal Department of the Bahamas and by"
"Presidency about a year thereafter. She was presented with the Order of the British Empire in 1996 and honored as a ""community hero"" in Bermuda in 2015. She lives in Barbados and works as a consultant with the Caribbean Dyslexia Centre. Norma Cox Astwood Norma Alice Cox, known as Norma Cox Astwood or Lady Blackman, OBE, is a Bermudian clinical psychologist. She was the first woman to serve as vice president of the Senate of Bermuda. Between 1987 and 1996, she served as an independent Senator in Bermuda and was the founder in 1989 of the Commonwealth Women Parliamentarians Group."
"Josephine Nesbit Josephine May Nesbit (also known as Josie Nesbit; December 23, 1894 – August 16, 1993) was an American nurse who served in the Army Nurse Corps. She was second-in-command of the Angels of Bataan, Army nurses stationed in the Philippine Islands during World War II who were the largest group of American women taken as prisoners of war. Nesbit was noted for her ""humane, dynamic leadership style."" She was credited with the survival of the nurses during the years they were held in captivity at Santo Tomas Internment Camp. Nesbit was born on her family's farm near Butler,"
"Kaiser Permanente East Bay, Assistant Clinical Professor of Medicine for UCSF, and serves on The Permanente Medical Group Board of Directors - the largest physician group in the country. She has received numerous medical teaching awards. She has served on the prestigious judges panel for the Miss California Pageant and the Miss Alabama Pageant. In 2011, Ng started working in the Cardiology Department at Kaiser Permanente in Richmond, California. In addition to winning the National Talent Award and the Top Interview award, she was the first Asian-American Miss California in the 80-year history of the pageant. Ng has received numerous"
"progress. Seven other people were also awarded the medal, including the first women; Ambulance Driver Dorothy Clarke and Ambulance Attendant Bessie Jane Hepburn of Aldeburgh, Suffolk, for rescuing a man badly injured in an explosion. The first recipient chronologically was Coxswain Robert Cross, commander of the RNLI lifeboat ""City of Bradford"", based at Spurn Point, whose award was gazetted on 7 February 1941. It was awarded for an incident on 2 February 1940 when Cross took the lifeboat out in gale force winds, snowsqualls, and very rough seas to rescue the crew of a steam trawler. The youngest recipient was"
"faculty advisor for the Harvard Women in Neuroscience program. She is the recipient of a number of awards that recognize her teaching and research accomplishments including the Robert Ebert Clinical Scholar’s Award from the Klingenstein Foundation, a McDonnell Foundation Award from the James S. McDonnell Foundation, the National Institutes of Health Director's Pioneer Award in 2006, and the Casty Family Award for Achievement in Mentoring. She was awarded a two-year $250,000 grant from Alex's Lemonade Stand Foundation in 2014. In 2017, she won the Harold Amos Faculty Diversity Award from Harvard Medical School. Rosalind A. Segal Rosalind Anne Segal is"
"employment equity. Amos has also been Deputy Chair of the Runnymede Trust (1990–98), a Trustee of the Institute for Public Policy Research, a non-executive Director of the University College London Hospitals Trust, a Trustee of Voluntary Services Overseas, Chair of the Afiya Trust, Member of the board of the Sierra Leone Titanium Resources Group, a director of Hampstead Theatre and Chair of the Board of Governors of the Royal College of Nursing Institute. Her most recent appointment has been to be the 9th director of SOAS, the School of Oriental & African Studies, and coincidently makes her the first woman"
"Director from 1967-70. She was an ICN representative to the International Labour Organization. She also acted as a consultant to the World Health Organization. Throughout her career she was Chief Nursing Officer (CNO) to the Southampton University Hospitals NHS Trust, Regional Nursing Officer (RNO) for the Wessex Regional Health Authority, and Chief Nursing Advisor for the British Red Cross. She was appointed Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (CBE) and later elevated to Dame Commander (DBE) by Queen Elizabeth II. In 1993, the ICN awarded her the Christiane Reimann Prize, which is given every four years"
"Medal, the Navy Meritorious Service Medal (two awards), the Navy and Marine Corps Commendation Medal, the Joint Service Achievement Medal, the Navy Achievement Medal, several unit commendations and the General George Joulwan Achievement Award. She is a member of the Board of Trustees of Catholic Distance University. Nancy J. Lescavage Nancy J. Lescavage is a retired American rear admiral who served as the 20th director of the Navy Nurse Corps and was the commander of Naval Medical Education and Training Command, Bethesda, Maryland. Lescavage hails from Port Carbon, Pennsylvania, and is a licensed nurse in that state. Since receiving her"
"in 2013 at Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital/Harvard Medical School, where she served as Chief Resident. She completed a fellowship in sports medicine at the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago in 2014. She is currently Assistant Professor of PM&R at Harvard Medical School and an Attending Physician at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital, where she specializes in sports medicine. She has published numerous scientific papers focusing on sports medicine, adaptive sports and exercise, and women in medicine. She was the recipient of the Harold Amos Diversity Award from Harvard Medical School in 2016, which recognized her excellence in promoting research"
"fame and attention for his breakthrough. Because of the use of black women, Sims was eventually able help white women who experienced vesicovaginal fistulas, but black women still did not have access to these treatments and many died from the same disease that the slave women helped to cure. Along with not giving them anesthesia, he mistreated the women, making them undress completely, then kneel on hands and knees while doctors examined their vaginas. ""Medical Apartheid"" won the 2007 National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction. Harriet Washington has been a fellow in ethics at the Harvard Medical School, a"
"Meritorious Service, the National Brotherhood Award from the National Conference of Christians and Jews, the University Award from the University of North Carolina, the John Tyler Caldwell Award for the Humanities from the North Carolina Humanities Council, and the Hadassa Medical Center's Freedom Award, and in 2009 she was inducted into the North Carolina Women's Hall of Fame. She has also received honorary degrees from North Carolina Central University, Davidson College, Elon University, Shaw University, Pfeiffer University, Campbell University, UNC-Chapel Hill, and N.C. Wesleyan College. Semans died on January 25, 2012 at age 91 in Duke Hospital in Durham, North"
"the UKABIF (United Kingdom Acquired Brain Injury Forum) – Innovation by a Clinician and Innovation by a Care Provider. The London Garden Society awarded the RHN a gold medal for its gardens, in 2010 and, on 31 December 2010, an RHN occupational therapist, Helen Gill-Thwaites, received an MBE for her services to healthcare, following the development of an assessment tool at the RHN called SMART (Sensory Modality Assessment & Rehabilitation Technique) which accurately diagnoses disorders of consciousness. Royal Hospital for Neuro-disability The Royal Hospital for Neuro-disability, in Putney, South West London, is an independent medical charity that provides rehabilitation and"
"bay on a ship or a hospital in a foreign posting. In 2017, she was appointed Head of the Royal Naval Medical Service and Medical Director General (Naval). As such, she is also a member of the Second Sea Lord's Board of Management and serves as the medical adviser to the Admiralty Board. In 2014, Kennedy married Mark Durkan. In 2012, Kennedy was appointed an Honorary Nursing Sister to The Queen (QHNS). In the 2017 New Year Honours, she was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in recognition of her service with the Defence Medical"
"Awards she has received include the Vice Presidential Service Badge and the Public Health Service Achievement Medal. Clare Helminiak Clare Helminiak is a Rear Admiral in the United States Public Health Service Commissioned Corps. She served as the Chief Medical Officer and is an Assistant Surgeon General of the United States Public Health Service. Helminiak received her M.D. from the Medical College of Wisconsin in 1982. The following year, she completed her internship at Michigan State University. In 1998, she received her M.P.H. from the Medical College of Wisconsin. Helminiak joined the Corps in 1983 in Mescalero, New Mexico as"
"station gives regular weather reports to HM Coastguards at Weymouth. In 2009 NCI Portland Bill was the winner of The Wessex Charity Award (Volunteers of the year). This award had 200 applicants. Following the recognition, Meridian Television created a 10-minute feature at the lookout, and this was screened throughout the region then sold to Westward Television. During the Queen's Diamond Jubilee year (2012), the station was presented with The Queen's Award for Voluntary Service - the highest recognition possible for volunteers, and the equivalent of an MBE. That same year in August HRH The Princess Royal returned, together with Vice"
"Award"". The award was given to nurses in Windsor and Essex area in recognition for the care and compassion to patients, and contributions to the field of nursing. The award is given by the Windsor – Essex Chapter of the Registered Nurses' Association of Ontario. She died at the age of 76 on July 19, 2007 at the Hospice Village in Windsor, Ontario, Canada after succumbing to cancer. Lois Ann Fairley Lois Ann Fairley (July 6, 1931 – July 19, 2007) was a Canadian nurse, a patient care advocate, an Ontario labour leader, and a community service activist. Lois Ann"
"Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers in 1998, was named an associate investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute in 2000, and was the 2003 recipient of the National Science Foundation's Alan T. Waterman Award. Amon also shared the 2007 Paul Marks Prize for Cancer Research and won the 2008 National Academy of Sciences Award in Molecular Biology. She was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2017. She received a 2019 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences for her work on how aneuploidy (having an abnormal number of chromosomes) affects normal and cancerous cells. She"